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U'. V J • M OVta.ll. LlUUTl a QUU OJUi ICI IJwere on *ho right of the road- agios3 the couriers was jLov*n, detailed from Company B, to whom I an indebted for what is here reported as coming from General £3 ax dee. As the enemy a$-broached Brrfclor^s cavalry they retired ei hastily that (s-eneral Hardee almost involuntarily asked; “Are there no troops, no men here to check this advance?” Levin cnggeated that the liangersjwere In reserve under the bloffs, and Eardeo order ad them up. When the bead of the column approached {ho veteran eye of the general, tcannirg the iavemls faco of M-Uthews.' Indicate a the belief that If the salvation of the army. depended biioT all was lost. But when he heard theqoick, decisive reply of Matthews to his ordar that this advance xnnst be checked; “ We are the mea no do It, geurrH.1, hope revived, ir was the ana barstiag thioogh a dark cload. .The order to Forward, Hangers! Front Into lice, was given by the captain, and arf the regiment passed the general he and his young eon, who had the day before enlisted in ComuaLV D. tinned their csns tn fin.ah
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 03, 1887
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